Literatura Inglesa

QUESTTIONNAIRE ON THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

1. Briefly refer to the “The three Demons”:

Three demons constitute the basis of contemporary literature in philosophy. Darwin with his Theory ofBiological Evolution; Carl Marx, with his doctrine of Dialectical materialism and Sigmund Freud with his study of the growth and function of the mind, the conscious, subconscious, and the unconscious.2. Which events contributed to shape modern man’s pessimistic ideology?
The concepts of three demons together with further advance in technique and scientific knowledge accompanied by two worldwars plus internal wars in several countries have contributed to shape the outlook of our contemporary world.
3. Why did modern literature narrow its audience?
Modern literature narrows hisaudience because the full understanding of contemporary lyrics, the production of “The cerebral school of poetry” is reserved for an elite or for “Bored university students” – as Julian Symons.
4. Whatis Bernard Shaw’s Life Force?
Bernard Shaw growth the life force; according to this some men look for higher and more noble ways of life, but timid people make this task impossible.
5. Whathappened to William Butler Yeats belief in Christianity?

William Butler Yeats lost his faith in Christianity early in his life. He then resorted to magic ancient Irish legendry, oriental mysticism,clairvoyance, spiritualism and theosophy. Yeats does build up his own mythology transmitted to him by spirits through his wife, who acted as medium and wrote in state of trance.

6. What is Yeast’sSpiritus mundi or Anima Mundi ?
Men have had a collective experience of common memory since old ages; this collective memory – which Yeats calls Spiritus Mundi or Anima Mundi.
7. What is themessage of Yeats’ Politics?

Perhaps only through love may we be redeemed, and that is the spirit that animated Yeats’s poem Politics.

8. Explain the difference between product work and...